Dreams of the Fragrant River

"In the past 80 years, Chinese films have grown from nothing, from infancy to maturity, and have made brilliant achievements. (First release) "Dingjun Mountain" to "Burning the Red Lotus Temple"; from "A River of Spring Water Flows East" To "Yellow Earth", several generations of filmmakers have written the history of Chinese film together...

In the past 80 years, due to the interference of war and politics, Chinese films have also experienced many twists and turns. The ten-year civil war and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression... made the development of Chinese films and films halted for a time, and now we have ushered in the great reform and opening up, and Chinese films have regained their brilliance..."

The director of the Cultural Film Bureau stood on the rostrum and delivered an impassioned opening speech. As a special guest from Hong Kong, Kang Jianfei sat in the first row with the directors of domestic film studios. Leader of the Ministry of Culture.

Today's Chinese film 80th anniversary celebration, the organizers also invited Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, but neither of them went north at the same time, only Kang Jianfei ran over and missed his face.

Zou Wenhuai was concerned about Taiwan's film market, while Shao Yifu was too old to have the energy to toss back and forth. Anyway, Shao Yifu made a lot of donations to the mainland this year, and he has already expressed his position and attitude.

"The best editor at the 5th Golden Rooster Awards is Zhou Dingwen's "Wreath Under the Mountain"."

"The best recording of the 5th Golden Rooster Award is - Feng Deyao and Miao Zhenyu's "Thunderstorm"."

"The best music winner of the 5th Golden Rooster Award is Xu Youfu's "Life"."

"..."

After some celebratory singing and dancing, the Golden Rooster Awards finally began to be awarded.

The awards were awarded one by one, and Kang Jianfei was only responsible for slaps. There's nothing wrong with him anyway. Although Hong Kong films also belong to Chinese films, they cannot participate in the competition for the Golden Rooster Award. Kang Jianfei is purely here today as a spectator.

Of course, because he is the only Hong Kong filmmaker who came to the awards ceremony (the Silver Capital Organization is not counted). Therefore, the organizer also arranged for Kang Jianfei to be a guest of honor.

Kang Jianfei, the winner of the first few awards, had never heard of it, but soon he heard the host call out a familiar name.

"The best photographer of the 5th Golden Rooster Award is Zhang Yimou's "Yellow Earth"!"

Zhang Yimou, who was in his 30s, stood up from his seat excitedly, bowed a few times in all directions before walking onto the stage, and delivered an excited acceptance speech: "Thank you for the Golden Rooster Award, thank you for the leaders, thank you Director Chen Kaige. Thank you..."

After a lap of thanks, Zhang Yimou bowed to the audience again and walked off the stage cramped.

Although Laomouzi was in his 30s at this time, he had only been in the film industry for three years, and he was completely a newcomer. Even though he won a photography award abroad for "Yellow Earth", Zhang Yimou had to bow his head to show humility when he returned to China.

Comparatively speaking, Brother Chen Kai from "The Yellow Earth" is much more powerful. Although he is younger than Zhang Yimou, his father who can't stand it is a leader in the film industry.

The subsequent awards are not worth seeing, although the film "Yellow Earth" shines abroad. But it also won the best photography award, and Kang Jianfei, the subsequent winner, has never heard of it.

Having said that, although the Golden Rooster Award was in a serious situation at this time, it was still passable on the whole. In more than ten years, the Golden Rooster Awards will lay down some double-yolked eggs and triple-yolked eggs, and sometimes the best films that few people have heard of. That's called notoriety.

"The international director, Mr. Kang Jianfei, a patriotic overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, will announce the winner of the best actress and present the award!"

In a thunderous applause, Kang Jianfei walked to the stage. He didn't bother to joke around, he opened the envelope and announced, "The Best Actress winner is Li Ling's "The Girl from Huangshan."

Li Ling, who was in her 20s, came to the stage, and Kang Jianfei put the Golden Rooster trophy in her hand and looked at the Golden Rooster Award actress while shaking hands. The clothes are very simple, and the hairstyle seems to be specially done, but in Kang Jianfei's eyes, he feels old-fashioned, different from the future awl-faced actress. The current aesthetic concept is that square-faced beauties are popular because they appear more righteous.

Kang Jianfei gave up her seat on the stage. The square-faced queen started her acceptance speech, and then went back to their seats. Everything went step by step without any suspense.

When the Best Picture and Best Director awards are over. Brother Chen Kai, who didn't win the first prize, couldn't help sighing. "Yellow Earth" can win awards in foreign countries, but it can only get the best photography in China. It is impossible for Chen Kaige to have no resentment in his heart. But even if his father is a veteran of the mainland film industry, since this award has already been awarded, there is no possibility of changing it.

Not only that, at the Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films held last month, Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth" did not win any important awards.

In fact, in the final analysis, Chen Kaige is still too young, and seniority is very important in the mainland literary and art circles. Several important awards must be awarded to respected directors and their works. Chen Kaige, who is in his early 30s, can only stare blankly.

"Director Chen, you must do it next time." Liu Xiaoqing comforted.

This woman is now the number one actress in the mainland, so she will naturally be invited by the organizers to attend the awards ceremony, but her level is not yet able to sit in the front row with Kang Jianfei, so she can only get together with Chen Kaige and others.

Brother Chen Kai knew what was going on inside. He would have to spend at least three or five years if he wanted to win the best director. At this time, he could only smile bitterly: "Hopefully, "The Yellow Earth" can be successfully released in China, and I am already very satisfied. "

It's funny to say that "Yellow Earth", which won the grand prize abroad, almost failed the film censorship in China. In July last year, "Yellow Earth" was submitted for review, but for the Chinese people at this time, the political and moral standards of the film were too large, and after repeated discussions for several months, it finally barely passed the review.

However, after the release of "Yellow Earth", the film industry has a lot of controversy over the film. Now there are still a group of experts who say that "Yellow Earth" really smears China's image, which is one of the reasons why "Yellow Earth" cannot win awards in China.

Brother Chen Kai has risen strongly in the film industry at a young age, and there is a well-connected father behind him. Liu Xiaoqing naturally has to flatter, she deliberately complimented: "I heard that Director Chen's film will be released in Canada soon. But other directors can't compare."

"It's just luck, it just so happened that the Canadian film distributor got it right." Chen Kaige said quite proudly, the director who can make a film and show it in North America, let alone mainland China. Not even in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Zhang Yimou sat next to him and listened to the conversation between the two. He gave Liu Xiaoqing a meaningful look and thought to himself: No wonder this woman can get along well, and a few words will make Brother Chen Kai, who is in a bad mood, happy.

Brother Chen Kai looked at the Shanghai/Hai brand watch and said, "Xiaoqing, Mr. Kang has come all the way from Hong Kong. How can we show the friendship of the landlords? You can invite Mr. Kang out for a meal tomorrow."

"Okay, Jianfei also admires Director Chen. He said that you are one of the best directors in China." Liu Xiaoqing readily agreed, and deliberately called Kang Jianfei's name affectionately.

Zhang Yimou was really caught and asked, "Xiaoqing is very familiar with Mr. Kang?"

Zhang Yimou thought that Liu Xiaoqing was younger than her, so he called out "Xiaoqing". But this title made Liu Xiaoqing disgusted. She is the number one female movie star of the young generation in China. Is her name casually called? Brother Chen Kai can be called like this, after all, Brother Chen Kai is the director. And behind him is the father of a movie veteran, Zhang Yimou, who are you?

However, Liu Xiaoqing would not turn his face in public, instead he replied with a smile, "I don't know each other very well. Jianfei and I are just ordinary friends in private."

Zhang Yimou offended Liu Xiaoqing with a single sentence. He continued: "I just came back from the "Shushan" crew and heard a lot of Mr. Kang's deeds. I have many questions and want to ask him for advice."

Brother Chen Kai and Zhang Yimou have a good relationship, and said with a smile: "Then just go together.

Liu Xiaoqing did not miss any chance to show her closeness to Kang Jianfei. She said, "Yes, we just went together. Jianfei likes to communicate with his counterparts in the Mainland."

Brother Chen Kai asked, "By the way, Mouzi, how was the filming of "Shushan"?"

Zhang Yimou is one of the photographers of "Shushan". When he mentioned "Shushan", he said excitedly: "It's amazing, many shooting methods are very different from ours, and I have never seen some photography equipment. We have a professional special effects team, and we have to discuss with the director and the special effects before every shoot, just to facilitate post-production.”

Brother Chen Kai's eyes lit up and asked, "Is it the special effects of "Star Wars"?"

Zhang Yimou shook his head and said, "I don't know, it should be about the same anyway."

The two chatted about the shooting of "Shushan". Liu Xiaoqing didn't understand, so he didn't bother to intervene any more. He just stared at the singers on stage, and wanted the awards ceremony to end soon.

Kang Jianfei is more boring than Liu Xiaoqing. He doesn't care who wins the award on stage, because he doesn't even watch most of those movies, and he has never even heard the names. And those singing and dancing performances could not impress Kang Jianfei. After sitting down for more than two hours, Kang Jianfei regretted coming here long ago.

Seeing that the award ceremony was officially over, he was dragged to the banquet again. Fortunately, this time, the officials of the Ministry of Culture and the Film Bureau, as well as the directors of several major mainland factories and the principal of the Film Academy, made Kang Jianfei eat and drink together. Barely cheered up to cope.

"Mr. Kang, come to drink this cup, thank you for coming to the Golden Rooster Award Ceremony in person!"

"Comrade Xiaokang, your film is very good, make persistent efforts in the future, drink!"

"Xiaokang has a lot, let's have another cup!"

"..."

In 1985, with the rapid economic development of the mainland, officials became more and more generous. For example, this dinner was a lot higher than the last time.

Of course, those officials are not afraid to investigate, even if they do, they still have the pretense of receiving patriotic overseas Chinese.

On the wine table, the two vice-principals of China Opera and Nortel insisted on inviting Kang Jianfei to speak at their school. As soon as Kang Jianfei shied away from them, he called them brothers and said it was not righteous, and finally had to reluctantly agree.

It was past ten o'clock in the evening when the banquet was over. When these guys stumbled away one by one, Kang Jianfei came out of the bathroom to wash his face.

"Jianfei, so you're still here," Liu Xiaoqing suddenly appeared in the aisle and said with a smile, "I didn't see you just now, I thought you had already gone down."

"Why haven't you left yet?" Kang Jianfei wrote a check to Liu Xiaoqing a few days after he slept last time.

Liu Xiaoqing walked over and held Kang Jianfei's arm affectionately, and said in a coquettish tone, "Of course I'm waiting for you. After returning to Hong Kong last time, you didn't even call back, and I called you and no one answered."

Someone picked up the ghost. Kang Jianfei gave her the number that she wrote casually, but Liu Xiaoqing took it seriously.

Kang Jianfei didn't want to get entangled with this woman, he pushed Liu Xiaoqing's hand away and said, "Miss Liu, this is a restaurant, it's not good to be seen."

Liu Xiaoqing seemed to be completely unaware of the apparent rejection of people thousands of miles away, and once again hugged Kang Jianfei's arms affectionately and said, "No one is afraid, what are you afraid of?"

Kang Jianfei was speechless to this woman, so he couldn't just kick him away, he could only let her follow.

Going out of the hotel and getting into the car, Kang Jianfei had just opened the car door, and Liu Xiaoqing had already got in from the other side, making Kang Jianfei laugh or cry.

This red flag car belongs to the film bureau, and a driver was originally arranged, but at this time it was Zhang Degong who was in charge of driving.

"Boss, are you going back to the hotel?" Zhang Degong asked subconsciously in Cantonese.

Kang Jianfei looked at Liu Xiaoqing who was leaning on him, and said helplessly, "Go back."

After hearing Zhang Degong speak Cantonese, Liu Xiaoqing knew that the driver was from Kang Jianfei, and thought he was from Hong Kong, so he immediately became more active and unscrupulous.

Kang Jianfei didn't have the heart to entangle with Liu Xiaoqing at first. He felt a small hand touch his crotch before the car was driving very far. Such blatant provocation quickly made Kang Jianfei react.

Zhang Degong recognized Liu Xiaoqing at a glance. Zhang Degong was still in the army when Liu Xiaoqing debuted. At that time, it was the movie "Xiaohua~www.wuxiaspot.com~ which was watched by the army organization. Many soldiers regarded Liu Xiaoqing as a goddess.

Zhang Degong was no exception. He had been fascinated by Liu Xiaoqing for a while, and he was thinking of asking Liu Xiaoqing for an autograph later when he was driving. Halfway through the drive, he couldn't help but look in the rearview mirror of the car, but just one glance made Zhang Degong classic, and almost hit the roadside fence with a trembling of his hand.

I saw Liu Xiaoqing lying on his stomach in the back seat, his head swaying between Kang Jianfei's waist and legs, and finally Kang Jianfei held his head down and couldn't move.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Liu Xiaoqing coughed for a while, then swallowed it all under Kang Jianfei's order, and then continued to bury his head in cleaning up the filth.

Zhang Degong, who was driving, had a very complicated mood. The idol of his youth collapsed in front of him, and his heart was full of contempt for Liu Xiaoqing.

Liu Xiaoqing wiped his face according to the vanity mirror, and then leaned on Kang Jianfei's shoulder and said, "Jianfei, Director Chen Kaige wants to invite you to dinner tomorrow."

Kang Jianfei, who had just finished enjoying himself, closed his eyes comfortably and said, "I don't have time tomorrow, so I'm going to give a speech at school."